inflate

Example Sentences

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Charities are urging people not to turn their heating off as the war in Iran continues to inflate energy prices.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

And more importantly, he didn’t inflate it into a referendum on the character of New Yorkers.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2026

VC built Silicon Valley, helped inflate the dot-com bubble of the ’90s, and is behind many of today’s artificial-intelligence bets.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

The case was filed by the law firm Hagens Berman, which also represented home sellers in a lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors that alleged real-estate brokers were conspiring to inflate real-estate commissions.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 27, 2026

It would inflate the balloon with a huge burst of power, smoothing out the lumpiness of the universe in the same way a breath of air smooths out the wrinkles of a balloon.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife